Political status of the district

Political status of the district:

Parliament members:

Peesapati raghavayya: Elected from ongole constituency. He died in 1992. Dr.d.ramanaidu: He belongs to karamchedu and in 1999 elections he was elected from bapatla. He is a famous personality in cine field. His name was entered in Gunnies book of world records for producing highest number of cinemas.

Members elected from ongole constituency:

M.nandas (1952), konda narapareddy (1957), m.narayana swamy (1962), k.jaggaiah (1967), P.Ankineedu prasadarao (1971), pulivenkatareddy (1977,80), magunta srinivasulareddy (1991, 1998), magunta parvatamma (1996), k.balakrishnamurthy (1999).

Eminent people of this district in cine field:

*Tottempudi Ramayya chowdary

(born near tangutur, designed the movie paleru)

*Dhevukonda subbarao

(born in Ongole, music director for Usha parinayam played the role of narada)

*Csr chilakapati sita ramanjaneyulu

(Ongole, an eminent actor and singer)

*G (Garikapati) Varalakshmi

(Ongole,. famous character artist in telugu and tamil cinemas)

*P (paluvayi) Bhanumati

(Doddavaram village, singer, writer, music director and studio owner)

*C.Nagabhushanam

(Kondepi mandal, Anakarlapudi: cine and stage actor)

*M.venkateswararao (Uppugunduru, hero for the movvie malapilla)

*Galipenchala narasimharao (Ammanbrolu, music director)

*Yarlagadda venkanna chowdary (karamchedu, producer)

*Groantla veerayya chowdary, yerra seshagirirao (Veerannapalem, producers)

*Jagaralamudi radhakrishan, vadde balaji, Daggubati ramanaidu, vasiraju prakasam (producers)

*Madala rangarao (mynampadu, producer and actor)

*T.krishna (Tanguturu mandal, kakuturivatipalem, director)

*Pokuri baburao (Ongole, producer)

*B.gopal(m.nidamanuru, director)

*Rajachandra  (Inkollu, director)

* m.v.pani (Uppalapadu, director)

*perala (Uppugunduru, writer and director)

*M.v. babu (kandukuru, director)

*Yerramaneni chandramouli (lingamgunta, director)

*Vasanti (Timmasamudram, actor and producer)

*Prasadbabu (Ongole, actor)

*Daggupati raja (chirala, actor)

*Dharamavarapu subrahmanayam (Addanki mandal, Komminenivaripalem, actor)

*Nalluri venkateswarulu (actor)

*M.v.s Haranathbabau (writer) etc. are from this district.